No, this is not the Onion. CAIR NY is submitting testimony on "hate crimes"? Why aren't AFDI, SIOA, Former Muslims United or any other victims of jihadists testifying? I have a file three inches thick of "hate." Contact State Senator Brad Hoylman here. Does Hoylman intend to criminalize thought?

The
data is badly presented and the methodology is at times incoherent,
but it is still of great interest. Note for example: population is
presented but only for urban areas. So, total US pop comes out to be 112
million +. Also, the hate crimes by jurisdiction data tables don't have
which religions only broken down into race/religion/ethnicity/etc. We
know that among religious hate crimes, the most by far are against Jews.

Now, to put these per capita rates for religiously motivated hate crimes into perspective, compare them to other crimes:

Nationwide in 2011, there were an estimated 1,203,564 violent crimes.

Each
of the four violent crime offense estimates decreased when compared
with the 2010 estimates. Robbery had the largest decrease at 4.0
percent, followed by aggravated assault with a 3.9 percent decline,
forcible rape with a 2.5 percent decline, and murder and nonnegligent
manslaughter with a 0.7 percent decrease.

Nationwide in 2011, there were an estimated 9,063,173 property crimes.

There
was a 3.3 percent decline in motor vehicle theft and a 0.7 percent
decline in larceny-theft offenses. Estimated burglary offenses increased
by 0.9 percent when compared with the 2010 estimate.

Bottom line: As a species of crime, religiously motivated hate crimes is effectively non-existent in this country. With all of the crimes against Jews, and with the focus of those crimes
in NY/NJ, I feel no special fear as a clearly identifiable Jew. So why
are we manufacturing a victim narrative against Muslims?

When the 9/11 bombers, Fort Hood jihadists or the Boston Bombers engage in
what amounts to thousands of hate crimes in an instant by Muslims in the
name of Islam against Infidels, how -- if at all -- are these categorized?

(NEW
YORK, NY, 6/16/13) - On Friday, the New York chapter of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) submitted written testimony for a
public hearing on that state's hate crimes law hosted by ranking member
of the Senate Committee on Investigations and Government Operations
State Senator Brad Hoylman.

The forum to discuss New York's 13-year-old law came in the wake of
a recent spike in hate incidents in New York City. CAIR-NY has received
10 reported incidents of anti-Muslim hate crimes in the last 10
months.

The testimony submitted by CAIR-NY specifically
addressed underreporting of hate crimes, the promotion of anti-Muslim
sentiments in the community by discriminatory policing and the rise of
anti-Muslim hate groups based in New York.

CAIR-NY urged those in
attendance to familiarize themselves with the CUNY Center for Law
Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility (CLEAR) Mapping Muslims
Report to understand the damage created by the NYPD mass surveillance of
Muslims. CAIR-NY also urged support for legislation in Albany
introduced to end NYPD unconstitutional surveillance of Muslim
communities.

"Anti Muslim Hate Crime" is at record lows. Anti-Jewish hate crime is at record highs - due in large part to Islamic Jew Hatred. How is State Senator Hoylman addressing that?
Does Hoylman even know who Hamas-CAIR is?

It is dangerous for Hoylman to give this terror group the imprimatur of legitimacy without knowing who
and what they are. Let him know here.

I have spent years studying the evidence demonstrating that the
Council on American-Islamic Relations (“CAIR”) is a terrorist
organization operating as a front group for Hamas and its affiliated
organizations. I have consulted with FBI agents, CIA agents, local law
enforcement officers, and attorneys who specialize in national security
law. All of these consultations confirm that CAIR was begun as a Hamas
front group to carry out the Muslim Brotherhood’s anti-American agenda.

Much, but not all of this evidence, was documented in United States v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development et al., 3:04-cr-00240-P (N.D. Texas) (“HLF”).
I have personally invested hundreds of hours reading written documented
evidence and listening to audio-taped evidence that had been introduced
at the trial.

The evidence shows that CAIR is a criminal terrorist organization.
This conclusion is shared by the United States government. The
Department of Justice named CAIR in the federal criminal trial of the
Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development,[1]
which concluded with multiple guilty verdicts, as an unindicted
co-conspirator in a massive conspiracy to fundraise for, and otherwise
pursue, the terrorist agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Palestine
Committee, a public relations and fund raising arm of Hamas in the
United States.[2]See generally HLF.[3]
Specifically, CAIR was named as one of the organizations formed by the
defendants and co-conspirators to create the appearance of legality in
the effort to raise funds and public support for Hamas and its jihad
abroad. As the evidence in the HLF trial demonstrated, these
plans were part of the 1993 Philadelphia planning meeting carried out by
Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas operatives, a meeting which the FBI
secretly recorded pursuant to a lawful court order, the entire
transcript of which was introduced into the record at the HLF trial.[4] Two of the key participants at this Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas planning meeting were Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad.[5]
Ahmad co-founded CAIR, along with CAIR’s executive director Awad, in
1994 soon after this meeting. Ahmad served as CAIR’s chairman of the
board until 2005 and Awad still serves as CAIR’s executive director.

Further, the federal prosecutors successfully resisted every effort
by CAIR to have the public designation of CAIR as an “unindicted
co-conspirator” removed from the court record and concluded as follows
in its brief to the court:

Indeed, CAIR’s request to strike its name from the government’s
co-conspirator’s list is moot, since its conspiratorial relationship
with the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) was
confirmed by testimony and documentary evidence admitted at trial prior
to the date CAIR even filed its brief.[6]

After the convictions, CAIR and another co-conspirator filed motions
to have their names stricken from the co-conspirator list. The trial
judge refused based on the fact that the evidence fully supported this
co-conspirator designation. (Filed as Doc. No. 1356 in HLF; see also
Ex. B to the Declaration of John Stemberger filed in support of
Defendant’s opposition to Plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment.)

A key piece of evidence introduced at the HLF trial and linked to
the Muslim Brotherhood-Palestine Committee-Hamas conspiracy was a
“planning memo” which describes the purpose of the “legal”
organizations, such as CAIR, that the Muslim Brotherhood sought to
establish in the United States:

The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Process” with
all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand
that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and
destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its
miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it
is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other
religions.[7]

In addition, the FBI has publicly stated that it will have no formal
or official contacts with CAIR precisely because of the evidence that
linked CAIR and its senior management to Hamas and its purposes.[8]
Finally, in response to a letter from Congresswoman Sue Myrick, a
member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the U.S.
Department of Justice recently wrote in relevant part: (above)

[1]See, e.g., the NEFA Foundation website which provides detailed links and context for the court documents in both the first HLF trial (ended in mistrial) and the second trial (ended in guilty verdicts) at http://www.nefafoundation.org/hlfdocs.html; see, specifically, the Government’s Second Supplemental Trial Brief at p. 30 Available on line at

[4] The transcript is available from the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, website (see
link in note 15 above) in 18 parts as Government Exhibits “Philly
Meeting,” Nos. 1-18 and posted under the documents introduced into
evidence on Sept. 29, 2008.

[5]See a true and correct copy of the Philly Meeting Summary Chart introduced into evidence at the HLF trial, attached hereto as Ex. C. Ahmad (aka Omar Yehia) was named, along with CAIR, as an unindicted co-conspirators in the HLF trial.

[6]
Government’s Memorandum in Opposition to CAIR’s Motion for Leave to
File a Brief Amicus Curiae Instanter and Amicus Brief in support of the
Unindicted Co-Conspirators’ First and Fifth Amendment Rights at pp.
2-3. Available on line at:

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Sharia in Action: Hate Group Hamas-CAIR Submits Testimony on NY State Hate Crimes Law

No, this is not the Onion. CAIR NY is submitting testimony on "hate crimes"? Why aren't AFDI, SIOA, Former Muslims United or any other victims of jihadists testifying? I have a file three inches thick of "hate." Contact State Senator Brad Hoylman here. Does Hoylman intend to criminalize thought?

The
data is badly presented and the methodology is at times incoherent,
but it is still of great interest. Note for example: population is
presented but only for urban areas. So, total US pop comes out to be 112
million +. Also, the hate crimes by jurisdiction data tables don't have
which religions only broken down into race/religion/ethnicity/etc. We
know that among religious hate crimes, the most by far are against Jews.

Now, to put these per capita rates for religiously motivated hate crimes into perspective, compare them to other crimes:

Nationwide in 2011, there were an estimated 1,203,564 violent crimes.

Each
of the four violent crime offense estimates decreased when compared
with the 2010 estimates. Robbery had the largest decrease at 4.0
percent, followed by aggravated assault with a 3.9 percent decline,
forcible rape with a 2.5 percent decline, and murder and nonnegligent
manslaughter with a 0.7 percent decrease.

Nationwide in 2011, there were an estimated 9,063,173 property crimes.

There
was a 3.3 percent decline in motor vehicle theft and a 0.7 percent
decline in larceny-theft offenses. Estimated burglary offenses increased
by 0.9 percent when compared with the 2010 estimate.

Bottom line: As a species of crime, religiously motivated hate crimes is effectively non-existent in this country. With all of the crimes against Jews, and with the focus of those crimes
in NY/NJ, I feel no special fear as a clearly identifiable Jew. So why
are we manufacturing a victim narrative against Muslims?

When the 9/11 bombers, Fort Hood jihadists or the Boston Bombers engage in
what amounts to thousands of hate crimes in an instant by Muslims in the
name of Islam against Infidels, how -- if at all -- are these categorized?

(NEW
YORK, NY, 6/16/13) - On Friday, the New York chapter of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) submitted written testimony for a
public hearing on that state's hate crimes law hosted by ranking member
of the Senate Committee on Investigations and Government Operations
State Senator Brad Hoylman.

The forum to discuss New York's 13-year-old law came in the wake of
a recent spike in hate incidents in New York City. CAIR-NY has received
10 reported incidents of anti-Muslim hate crimes in the last 10
months.

The testimony submitted by CAIR-NY specifically
addressed underreporting of hate crimes, the promotion of anti-Muslim
sentiments in the community by discriminatory policing and the rise of
anti-Muslim hate groups based in New York.

CAIR-NY urged those in
attendance to familiarize themselves with the CUNY Center for Law
Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility (CLEAR) Mapping Muslims
Report to understand the damage created by the NYPD mass surveillance of
Muslims. CAIR-NY also urged support for legislation in Albany
introduced to end NYPD unconstitutional surveillance of Muslim
communities.

"Anti Muslim Hate Crime" is at record lows. Anti-Jewish hate crime is at record highs - due in large part to Islamic Jew Hatred. How is State Senator Hoylman addressing that?
Does Hoylman even know who Hamas-CAIR is?

It is dangerous for Hoylman to give this terror group the imprimatur of legitimacy without knowing who
and what they are. Let him know here.

I have spent years studying the evidence demonstrating that the
Council on American-Islamic Relations (“CAIR”) is a terrorist
organization operating as a front group for Hamas and its affiliated
organizations. I have consulted with FBI agents, CIA agents, local law
enforcement officers, and attorneys who specialize in national security
law. All of these consultations confirm that CAIR was begun as a Hamas
front group to carry out the Muslim Brotherhood’s anti-American agenda.

Much, but not all of this evidence, was documented in United States v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development et al., 3:04-cr-00240-P (N.D. Texas) (“HLF”).
I have personally invested hundreds of hours reading written documented
evidence and listening to audio-taped evidence that had been introduced
at the trial.

The evidence shows that CAIR is a criminal terrorist organization.
This conclusion is shared by the United States government. The
Department of Justice named CAIR in the federal criminal trial of the
Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development,[1]
which concluded with multiple guilty verdicts, as an unindicted
co-conspirator in a massive conspiracy to fundraise for, and otherwise
pursue, the terrorist agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Palestine
Committee, a public relations and fund raising arm of Hamas in the
United States.[2]See generally HLF.[3]
Specifically, CAIR was named as one of the organizations formed by the
defendants and co-conspirators to create the appearance of legality in
the effort to raise funds and public support for Hamas and its jihad
abroad. As the evidence in the HLF trial demonstrated, these
plans were part of the 1993 Philadelphia planning meeting carried out by
Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas operatives, a meeting which the FBI
secretly recorded pursuant to a lawful court order, the entire
transcript of which was introduced into the record at the HLF trial.[4] Two of the key participants at this Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas planning meeting were Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad.[5]
Ahmad co-founded CAIR, along with CAIR’s executive director Awad, in
1994 soon after this meeting. Ahmad served as CAIR’s chairman of the
board until 2005 and Awad still serves as CAIR’s executive director.

Further, the federal prosecutors successfully resisted every effort
by CAIR to have the public designation of CAIR as an “unindicted
co-conspirator” removed from the court record and concluded as follows
in its brief to the court:

Indeed, CAIR’s request to strike its name from the government’s
co-conspirator’s list is moot, since its conspiratorial relationship
with the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) was
confirmed by testimony and documentary evidence admitted at trial prior
to the date CAIR even filed its brief.[6]

After the convictions, CAIR and another co-conspirator filed motions
to have their names stricken from the co-conspirator list. The trial
judge refused based on the fact that the evidence fully supported this
co-conspirator designation. (Filed as Doc. No. 1356 in HLF; see also
Ex. B to the Declaration of John Stemberger filed in support of
Defendant’s opposition to Plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment.)

A key piece of evidence introduced at the HLF trial and linked to
the Muslim Brotherhood-Palestine Committee-Hamas conspiracy was a
“planning memo” which describes the purpose of the “legal”
organizations, such as CAIR, that the Muslim Brotherhood sought to
establish in the United States:

The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Process” with
all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand
that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and
destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its
miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it
is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other
religions.[7]

In addition, the FBI has publicly stated that it will have no formal
or official contacts with CAIR precisely because of the evidence that
linked CAIR and its senior management to Hamas and its purposes.[8]
Finally, in response to a letter from Congresswoman Sue Myrick, a
member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the U.S.
Department of Justice recently wrote in relevant part: (above)

[1]See, e.g., the NEFA Foundation website which provides detailed links and context for the court documents in both the first HLF trial (ended in mistrial) and the second trial (ended in guilty verdicts) at http://www.nefafoundation.org/hlfdocs.html; see, specifically, the Government’s Second Supplemental Trial Brief at p. 30 Available on line at

[4] The transcript is available from the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, website (see
link in note 15 above) in 18 parts as Government Exhibits “Philly
Meeting,” Nos. 1-18 and posted under the documents introduced into
evidence on Sept. 29, 2008.

[5]See a true and correct copy of the Philly Meeting Summary Chart introduced into evidence at the HLF trial, attached hereto as Ex. C. Ahmad (aka Omar Yehia) was named, along with CAIR, as an unindicted co-conspirators in the HLF trial.

[6]
Government’s Memorandum in Opposition to CAIR’s Motion for Leave to
File a Brief Amicus Curiae Instanter and Amicus Brief in support of the
Unindicted Co-Conspirators’ First and Fifth Amendment Rights at pp.
2-3. Available on line at: